Birding Cape May Point - Saturday, August 6th, 2016

Terns are sitting on the beach, fishing in the rips and loafing on the rails at the State Park. It's a great time to study them in many poses and plumages. Both Solitary and Spotted Sandpipers are also migrating through the area now and they can be seen and compared along the pond edges at the State Park.  Leaders: Kathy Horn, Roger Horn, Karl Lukens, Kyle Chelius, and Cindy Bamford.
47 species

Canada Goose  36
Mute Swan  6
Mallard  30
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  1
Turkey Vulture  2
Osprey  3
American Oystercatcher  4
Semipalmated Plover  3
Killdeer  4
Spotted Sandpiper  2
Solitary Sandpiper  1
Lesser Yellowlegs  8
Least Sandpiper  19
Pectoral Sandpiper  1
Semipalmated Sandpiper  6
Laughing Gull  80
Herring Gull (American)  1
Great Black-backed Gull  9
Least Tern  12
Common Tern  12
Forster's Tern  25
Black Skimmer  2
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  5
Mourning Dove  4
Chimney Swift  1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1
Downy Woodpecker  1
Eastern Kingbird  4
Fish Crow  2
Purple Martin  18
Tree Swallow  15
Barn Swallow  5
Carolina Chickadee  3
Carolina Wren  7
American Robin  3
Gray Catbird  2
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  6
Cedar Waxwing  7
Common Yellowthroat  5
Song Sparrow  1
Northern Cardinal  3
Indigo Bunting  1
Red-winged Blackbird  12
American Goldfinch  3
House Sparrow  2

This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)

Pectoral Sandpiper [Photo by Roger Horn]